@booklet {5052, title = {The Blind Assassin}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, abstract = {

In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed eutopia which the men find fades over time.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author}, author = {Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939)} }